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  • As Israel Expands Offensive, Death Toll in Gaza Passes 50,000, Health Ministry Says

    Israeli forces were expanding their offensive in Gaza on Sunday, taking control of more territory and issuing new evacuation orders for residents who had only recently returned to their homes. The Israeli military renewed its offensive in Gaza this past week after talks to extend a fragile, temporary cease-fire that went into effect in mid-January…

  • Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump

    Within the Trump administration’s Defense Department, Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocketry is being trumpeted as the nifty new way the Pentagon could move military cargo rapidly around the globe. In the Commerce Department, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service will now be fully eligible for the federal government’s $42 billion rural broadband push, after being largely shut…

  • Turkey Jails Istanbul Mayor Who Was Expected to Run for President

    A Turkish court on Sunday jailed the mayor of Istanbul pending trial on corruption charges, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency, sidelining a potential contender in Turkey’s next presidential election and the top rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested at his home on Wednesday, four days before he…

  • Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims

    He died from a bullet to the back of the head and two in the chest. A watchlist of alleged drug users and dealers kept by local officials identified the dead man as “De Juan, Constantino, a.k.a. Juan,” 37, and a drug “pusher.” The police said that he was killed in a drug buy-bust operation…

  • How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill

    When President Trump announced on Friday that the United States would move ahead with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the message to China was clear: The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars over the next decade, probably far longer, to contain Beijing’s ability to dominate the…

  • Rockets Fired From Lebanon Prompt Israeli Strikes

    Rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the first time in months on Saturday, prompting Israeli forces to strike back hours later at sites in southern Lebanon it said were linked to the militant group Hezbollah. The attacks were the latest example of how the renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza was rippling across the…

  • In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan See Democracy Eroding After Istanbul Mayor’s Detention

    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents had coalesced around the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who made it…

  • George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grilling Magnate, Dies at 76

    George Foreman, a heavyweight boxing champion who returned to the sport to regain his title at the improbable age of 45, and parlayed his fame and amiable personality into a multimillion-dollar grill business, died on Friday night at a hospital in Houston. He was 76. His family announced his death on his Instagram account. Roy…

  • After Lunar Disappointments, NASA Hits the Jackpot With Blue Ghost Moon Lander

    NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget than the agency could. Last year, that was a bad bet. The first NASA-financed spacecraft missed the moon entirely. The second landed but fell over. But this month, a robotic lander named Blue…

  • Israel Tries to Pressure Hamas to Free More Hostages

    Over the past three days, Israeli forces have bombarded targets across Gaza, saying they were attacking Hamas sites and operatives. Israeli ground troops have seized a major corridor in central Gaza that they withdrew from under the cease-fire, and they have expanded ground operations in northern and southern Gaza. On Friday, the Israeli military bombarded…